Yeah there's no ROM on nand because the ROM it's on the binary code apparently...
Anyway, OP's a liar, move on, nothing to see here. << i guess i should have been more specific
That's from http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Flog#Official_Launch
Someone pulled battery on 3.0.0 Switch with no luck: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/910233743998226432
really .. he made some shit up that turned out to be true ... ??
So the thing has now been figured out?
I saw a video of a guy supposedly using the Joycons with the Golf game onscreen, but who knows at this point xD
I saw a video of a guy supposedly using the Joycons with the Golf game onscreen, but who knows at this point xD
HOLY S*** I WAS RIGHT
Before plutoo :o
Before plutoo :o
Seems it uses cached network time, so if you ever connected your Switch online it can't be fooled. Have to wait till next July to play it :( https://t.co/D54M0fjGYD
— plutoo (@qlutoo) September 19, 2017
Official Launch:
The checks for this only run while Home Menu is active, aka main-menu.
It checks exactly the following:
The checks for this only run while Home Menu is active, aka main-menu.
It checks exactly the following:
- Both Joy-Cons must be detached from the system.
- The same motion checks for both Joy-Cons must pass, at the same time. The motion seems to be a reference to this. Hold the Joy-Cons pointing forwards/downwards, then move Joy-Cons to a vertical position, and hold it there for a bit. The Joy-Con grip can be used for this.
- The month+day must match the date of Iwata’s death: July 11. The loaded date originates from network-time-sync’d time, regardless of whether the user has it enabled or not. When the system was never connected to the Internet, it comes from the user-specified date instead.
- The output from a certain function must return 0, 1, or 2. On one system this was tested with, this check would pass.
- Lastly a nsam cmd is used. Probably to verify that the title is installed?
Here's my only issue with this, these machines can't be magic. If there's no energy to the system, no matter what type of file it's cached on disk, it can never know what the true time is relative to the current time... right?
There is no RTC battery on board. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Teardown/78263#s156388
It must be using the actual Switch battery. I wonder if leaving it disconnected for an extended period would do the trick? I wonder if earlier twitter user wasn't disconnected long enough. Hitting the power button helps too.
So the OP is a phony then? Since he said he had recently accessed the e-shop before accidentally launching Flog?
Or he happened to do it precisely on July 11th?
Or he happened to do it precisely on July 11th?
Those are the rules of the forum.
English likely is the universal language nowadays, nothing we can do about it. Nice to see an spanish speaker bro out there.
By the way you wrote, I can assume you are from Argentina, right?
That's actually fairly surprising, the system likely leaves battery left to keep the console alive for a while. That being said it'll be impossible to drain that too, they recharge themselves too!
But! By disconnecting the battery for a while, the Switch would/should lose track of it's "relative" date.
Then it should either ignore/delete the cache or just use the cache as an incorrect offset from some default manufacturing date. If it uses it as an incorrect offset, that probably wouldn't get us any closer...
I guess it's also possible that the Switch is "aware" enough that time can't go backwards, and once it sees an Internet time it will never go any lower than that... but that seems like making a time tracking system fairly complicated for little payoff, except to prevent this easter egg.
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yall im torn... ive been hacking away at tales of phantasia GBA (the USA version) and have so many documents of reverse engineering i've done -
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I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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